From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 4 9:27:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F2714D3F for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:27:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id JAA11936; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:26:22 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id JAA22688; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:26:22 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA22238; Sat, 4 Dec 99 09:26:16 PST Message-Id: <38494EC8.296BB7C1@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 10:26:32 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Dennis Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?) References: <199911220127.UAA28430@etinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dennis wrote: > > At 07:49 PM 11/21/99 -0500, you wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Dennis wrote: > > > >> The nightmare of instability of 3.x continues whilst the braintrust flogs > >> away at 4.x. Its really a damn shame. And why is 3.x so much slower than > >> 2.2.8? Will 4.0 be slower yet? > > > >Your vagueness and lack of evidence is astounding. > > The "evidence" is that 3.x chokes in conditions that 2.2.8 and LINUX dont > on the exact same hardware. Sorry I dont have time to present a case to > you. Exactly WHAT did you think you would accomplish with this message? Let me summarize what you've said to clarify: "FreeBSD 3.x sucks but I don't have time tell you where and how it sucks." My 3.3 machines run until I make world and reboot. They're not heavily loaded, just doing Gigabit ethernet testing and spidering the entire WWW. Did you come here asking for help, or just to throw bricks? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message